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Re/Framing Virtual Conversational Partners: A Feminist Critique and Tentative Move Towards a New Design Paradigm

verfasst von : Sheryl Brahnam, Margaret Weaver

Erschienen in: Design, User Experience, and Usability: Users and Interactions

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

A major research agenda in HCI is the development of believable agents. Because believability has become linked to gendered personification, designers have relied on stereotypes for both the physical rendering and verbal responses of these agents. Conversational agents are even scripted to handle “abuse” in stereotypical ways. Such scripting, however, often escalates the abuse. While the demand for anthropomorphized agents may necessitate a reliance on bodily stereotypes, the verbal responses of the agents need not be scripted according to gendered expectations. We explore the design of conversational agents as a rhetorical enterprise that can deconstruct overtly gendered patterns of interaction.

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Metadaten
Titel
Re/Framing Virtual Conversational Partners: A Feminist Critique and Tentative Move Towards a New Design Paradigm
verfasst von
Sheryl Brahnam
Margaret Weaver
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20898-5_17

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